From Michele Lessona 28 December 1879
Summary
The Academy of Sciences of Turin has awarded CD a 12000 franc prize for his work during the past four years.
| Author: | Michele Lessona |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12373 |
From Anthony Rich 28 December 1879
Summary
New Year greetings.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12374 |
From Antonio Mendola 29 December 1879
Summary
Reports from an Italian baron that a calf’s horn that was buried in a field set roots; mule’s hairs incubated in water come alive.
| Author: | Antonio Mendola |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12375 |
From Emil Witte 29 December 1879
Summary
Relates case of selective immunity to rinderpest.
| Author: | Emil Witte |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12376 |
From Ercole Ricotti 29 December 1879
Summary
CD awarded a prize of 12,000 lire in recognition of his recent research on plant physiology.
| Author: | Ercole Ricotti |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12376A |
From W. M. Hacon 31 December 1879
Summary
WMH’s agent is coming to Down for CD to sign transfer of £5000 North Eastern Railway stocks. Horace is coming to his office to execute the marriage-settlement.
| Author: | William Mackmurdo Hacon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12378 |
From Victor Marshall [after 4 November 1879]
Summary
Sends some doggerel verse about a literary dandy who is critical of Darwin and Spencer and approves of Ruskin.
| Author: | Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 4 Nov 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12390 |
From C. V. Smith [1879]
Summary
Notes on reefs in the SW Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
| Author: | Charles Valentine Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 69: A61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8131 |
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [20 January 1879]
Summary
H. N. Moseley says [in "Notes on plants collected and observed at the Admiralty Islands", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 15 (1877): 77] pigeons eject seeds in fit state for germination. He regards pigeons as providing most efficient means of transport in Malayan Archipelago.
CD’s collected notes on geographical distribution would make a good book.
| Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Jan 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10341 |
From James Torbitt [1879?]
Summary
Has found no [potato] variety whose foliage can resist the parasite, except when grown under glass.
| Author: | James Torbitt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1879?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11814 |
From Marius Koch 3 January 1879
Summary
A young disciple wishes to know if reports of people with tails in New Guinea could be true.
| Author: | Marius Koch |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11819 |
From Mary Jung 7 January 1879
Summary
Young Austrian woman asks for CD’s autograph.
| Author: | Mary Jung |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11821 |
From Carl Kraus 8 January 1879
Summary
A supporter of "the presumptive connection between socialism and evolution through natural selection" sends essays of Carl Vogt and requests CD to comment on them publicly.
| Author: | Carl (Charles) Kraus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11822 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 January 1879
Summary
Sends figures on increase in value of North Western Railway stocks. Says consol stock considered much more secure for bankers. Does not think his own bank is in danger of a run. Is glad to see the Emperor of Prussia has confirmed CD’s appointment to Academy. Is snowing at Bassett.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11823F |
From Leopold Würtenberger 10 January 1879
Summary
Asks about possibility of securing grant in England in order to complete work on ammonites. Describes progress. Could CD recommend him to a foundation? Describes personal background.
| Author: | Leopold Würtenberger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11825 |
From C. H. Blackley 13 January 1879
Summary
Relates anecdote about a provincial girl’s reaction to being told men descended from monkeys.
| Author: | Charles Harrison Blackley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 194 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11826 |
From Gaston de Saporta 16 January 1879
Summary
Sends his photograph; asks for CD’s.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11830 |
From W. K. Parker 17 January 1879
Summary
Sends CD a book on science and scriptures written by a clergyman friend [unidentified].
| Author: | William Kitchen Parker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11831 |
From Karl Höchberg 17 January 1879
Summary
Points out comment by Grant Allen supporting his theory of the origin of colour sense. Is English translation of his essay possible?
| Author: | Karl Höchberg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 226 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11832 |
From Melchior Neumayr 21 January 1879
Summary
Respects Leopold Würtenberger’s work. Will initiate inquiry if CD wishes. LW’s work suffers from his limited circumstances. Will assist him if he asks.
Mentions his own forthcoming work ["Zur Kenntniss der Fauna des untersten Lias in den Nordalpen", Abh. K.-K. Geol. Reichsanst. 7 (1874–82), vol. 5].
| Author: | Melchior Neumayr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11838 |
| letter | (317) |
| Krause, Ernst | (21) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (19) |
| Darwin, Francis | (10) |
| Darwin, Reginald | (10) |
| Torbitt, James | (9) |
